The election is coming up and for the first time in many years, I am fully involved in the political life around me. Not an observer, not an outsider, not an expat far away-- it's more exciting than I remember.
I don't miss Paris. It's a big gray city without the mountains and ocean and wildlife I see around me here. It's morose, it's rainy, it's rude. I don't even miss Europe most of the time.
Maybe, though, if I thought I couldn't go back.... Or if I were there, now, in a cafe with a steaming expresso in front of me, on the boulevard Saint-Germain.....
I don't have much to say any more. You may have noticed. I've been gone almost two years. I'm no longer an expert on Paris or anything else. It's time to stop writing as an expat-come-home. When I go back to Paris, I'll return to Rue Rude.
Goodbye, old friends!
I've enjoyed reading L.A. en vie and wish you continued good times in California....
Posted by: Ken | 28 October 2008 at 20:03
Dear Sedulia,
Thank you so much for your blog these last few years. I got a lot of pleasure from reading it and considering your points of view. May the rest of your life go well. I will miss you.
Chris Panero, California
(chrissoup)
Posted by: Chris Panero (chrissoup) | 28 October 2008 at 20:10
I am spending les vacances de la Toussaint in Paris, just near the junction of the Bds. St. Michel and St. Germain. I will have an espresso for you.
All that time I blogged while living here, I never read you; it was only once you were in LA and I was in Kentucky that I did so. That said, I will miss your posts. Bonne continuation !
Posted by: Alison | 28 October 2008 at 22:28
Oh non! the first blog I read in the morning with my café.. I so like your wit and the way you look at things...well avec mes sincères remerciements, please believe, Madame, in the assurance of my sad yet distinguished and best wishing sentiments. I will miss you!
Posted by: Chantal | 29 October 2008 at 10:41
Well, I will keep your bookmark and check in periodically. It has been my pleasure to read what ever you wanted to write.
Good luck and see you in Paris.
Posted by: Nancy | 29 October 2008 at 18:42
no, i have not noticed you don't have much to say! it's been a lovely experience to hear your ever-so-slightly odd (?!) points of view these last years, and i'll miss you. cheers for the future.
Posted by: jadie | 02 November 2008 at 05:53
Darn it! As an American expat in Paris, I discovered you through Rue Rude, followed your blogging in California, and now...nothing.
So, all I can say is that I hope that you come back to Paris soon! Or Mongolia, or whereever provoking enough to put your opinions out there.
I don't blog myself, but have become an avid reader of all sorts of blogs while in France. I imagine that if I were return to the US, I would have less use for the blogosphere as well. Best wishes!
Posted by: liz | 02 November 2008 at 17:24
I too shall miss you, your blog was something I looked forward to visiting, especially since I moved back to my country of birth almost two years ago and felt the transition keenly (to put it mildly).
Posted by: cheekycicak | 03 November 2008 at 20:15
Zut alors! You will be greatly missed. Your reflections in Rue Rude et LA envie were always a treat to read. Patricia
Posted by: Patricia | 04 November 2008 at 01:23
All good wishes to you! I will check in from time to time because I enjoyed your writing.
Alison
Posted by: Alison | 05 November 2008 at 21:24